1. Culture
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2. Definition of Culture
Shared patterns of learned behavior, attitudes, and knowledge.

3. Shared Patterns
Things part of the culture are believed or practiced by a lot of people
Pattern implies that we find an element of a culture repeated over & over again in different placements
Toothpaste is part of our culture because we use it, but if only you use ketchup it’s not part of the culture

4. Culture is a learned behavior
This means its not genetic or related to race.
Culture Trait
A single component of culture
Do not need to be unique to one culture
Some are shared, some are unique
French speakingfrance & canada & west africa

5. Culture Region An area that shares a large number of culture traits.
What examples can you think of?

9. Culture Realm Larger groupings of culture regions
What examples you can think of?

11. Culture Complex Cultural Traits are often related
Common practice in the US is to give employees Sundays off.
Christianity is the majority religion in the US
Could these cultural traits be related?
A culture complex is a bundle of traits that have something in common

12. Automobiles

13. What might be another culture complex of the U.S.?
In a small group come up with a culture complex in the U.S. and provide examples

14. Cultural Convergence Two or more cultures that share culture traits
So much so that aspects of the cultures are similar
What are some aspects of other cultures do we have as part of ours?

15. Components of Culture

16. 1. Artifacts Material objects Procedures for using those objects
An Artifact
What are some artifacts that our culture produces?

17. Do you recognize any of these objects?

18. 2. Sociofacts
How people in a culture are expected to interact with each other
How social institutions are structured
These are called sociofacts

20. 3. Mentifacts Ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of a culture.
Individual traits are mentifacts (ideal, democracy)
Individual mindset v. loyalty to group

21. All 3 subsystems of cultures can be related

22. Cultural Diffusion

23. Diffusion
What do you remember about Diffusion?

24. Cultural Diffusion begins at a hearth

28. Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion
Where a particular innovation begins in places that are distinctly not centers and then over time begins to make its way up conventional hierarchies.
Can you think of any trend, idea, etc. that started in non-centers?

29. Historical Cultural Hearths

30. Mesopotamia Contributed Writing Math Astronomy Architecture
Legal codes (Code of Hammurabi)

31. The Americas
Incas, Aztecs

32. West Africa

33. Nile River

34. Greco-Roman

35. Indus Valley

36. North China